non-Java, Open Source, Message-Oriented Middleware

Richard Cottrill richard_c at tpg.com.au
Tue Jun 11 20:52:52 EST 2002


To reply to my own email. I knew I'd missed something - Spread. Spread fits
the bill of what you're looking for. Free, non-Java, MOM, multicast - fully
buzzword compliant. Nifty. It does suffer from a very low-level API (too
myopic about data IMHO); but it seems to be a real candidate.

http://www.spread.org/

Please let me know how your search turns out.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Richard Cottrill
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:23 AM
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
> Cc: Doug.Palmer at csiro.au
> Subject: RE: non-Java, Open Source, Message-Oriented Middleware
>
>
> > From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of Doug.Palmer at csiro.au
> > I've been looking for examples of message-oriented middleware
> (MOM) in the
> > open-source world.
>
> Hi,
>
> Non-Java is a sticking point in open-source. I've looked around this area
> some and I can't find too much. *IF* you can bend the Java
> restriction then
> OpenJMS looks like a decent option. I'm not too thrilled by it because I
> intrinsically dislike store & forward systems for all kinds of
> reasons - not
> the least of which is their inelegance - PGM seems to be a much
> more elegant
> solution IMHO. In terms of plusses - OpenJMS is GPL, dead easy to
> configure,
> and standards-compliant.
>
> TIBCO has abortively released a GPL PGM implementation for Linux
> (OpenPGM).
> There was a code drop due late last year; but I'm not sure it ever
> materialised. I tried to check; but the website appears to be down. I'm
> going to chase this up.
>
> I've looked at hacking Jabber to be a MOM server as well; and some of the
> docs on the Jabber site suggest that it is one of the goals of the server.
> Unfortunately I found Jabber a pain to configure and decided I wasn't
> motivated enough. I was specifically looking at bolting OpenPGM onto the
> Jabber server for inter-server messaging (thus enabling 1-M
> communication in
> that way that I think all MOM systems should).
>
> Not to be rude; but I couldn't find anything in the open-source universe
> that was as featureful as Talarian SmartPGM and SmartSockets - truly
> spectacular stuff. Talarian gave us (my colleagues and I) a
> presentation on
> it and we were agape at some of the things they can do. I
> sincerely hope you
> can find something to compete effectively - TIBCO and Talarian both charge
> through the nose (an average implementation can easily run to US$500k +
> consulting services - many contracts are more than double that).
>
> If want to try something evil; you could build some stored procedures and
> use MySQL. Off the top of my head I don't know why it's intrinsically so
> much worse than other store-forward systems... There might be a way to put
> your tables into /tmp to keep everything in memory (if you don't need
> persistence). Actually, that might have legs... Suggestions about why this
> is such a bad idea anyone?
>
> Richard
>
> *Disclaimer*: I work in product support for TIBCO software. TIBCO recently
> bought Talarian; ergo I may support Talarian software in future. I believe
> Andreas is the only person on this list to suffer my professional wrath ;)
>
>





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